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Those of you who attended the May 3rd Phoenix Office Hour might remember me saying “Phoenix will never have V2 Avatar Physics”…well… excuse me while I remove my foot from my mouth…That was before LL released Avatar Physics which created an incompatibility between V1 viewers and viewers with v2 Av Physics. See below link for reference.https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-25479

The problem is that V1 viewers don’t recognize the appearance data sent by viewers with avatar physics. Initially LL offered us a simple fix which we were going to use, until we saw that Shyotl Kuhr had submitted a backport patch of V2 Av Physics into the Singularity Viewer. With permission from and thanks too Siana Gearz of Singularity and some modifications of our own we have ported that patch into this release.

The reason we chose to include av physics is to increase adoption of this release as it fixes a pretty critical issue which affects content; without this release you will not see people on Viewer 2, Singularity, Firestorms next release..this phoenix release or any other viewer with av physics correctly. Because of this I highly encourage you all to update to this release.

We have also created a MarketPlace account where we are giving away a free box of preset av physics layers used by members of the Phoenix Team. In it you will find physics settings used by Jessica Lyon, Miro Collas, Mobius Ryba, Pudenta Magic, Sunset Faulkes, Thea Brianna,Whirly Fizzle’s and many others male and female.https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Phoenix-Team-Physics/2270517We will also be putting up other useful freebies on this marketplace account related to the Phoenix and Firestorm viewers for our users as well so stay tuned! The store is being run by our PhoenixViewerMascot account but is controlled by Jessica Lyon and Mobius Ryba.

For those of you who do not want Avatar Physics we still encourage you to update so you see others correctly. You can disable seeing avatar physics in (Prefs> Graphics> Av Physics) while still seeing other avatars normally. You can also disable sending your Av Physics data to the server in (Prefs>Phoenix>Avatar> Don’t send avatar physics to server).

IMPORTANT: If you have problems with this release… We highly encourage you to uninstall your previous version of Phoenix before installing this one. If you find your still having issues, chances are very high that a “clean reinstall” will fix it 99% of the time. This often happens because of either conflicts or corruption of the settings files. Instructions on how to do this here: http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=clean_reinstall

If you have problems with this release we can’t help you from within the comments. Please contact one of our support people for help, they can fix just about everything. You can find our support people on our support page, BIG link at the top of any of our website pages.

Thank you for the new viewer & easy to understand instructions for a clean reinstall. My viewer had become corupted a few days ago & I was forced to use Viewer 2 to get into SL. It was horrible. Now I can enjpy SL again. The new viewer looks giod & seems to work perfectly too.

Thank you all to the whole Phoenix Team this is another great improvement.

I’ve only just started playing with it but the instructions have been so clear and easy to understand, and the examples you gave out are fun to try. You’ve done a wonderful job again.

Also I can see so many potential options if clothing and or attachments could have physics modifiers (ie you have your AV with basic set of physics, and then wear some corset or other tight clothing and the breast and belly would be “adjusted”)

Thanks for going the extra mile not only to fix the bug, but to make physics actually work in Phoenix. I’d hoped to be able to use it for ears and tail bounce. I have no wish to have my stomach or butt boinging around. At least I’ll be able to see others who have it set up.

Well, started with 1102 last UK night. The physics..my what a load of settings to play with! Apart from that it seems as smooth as silk, though not quite as fast as the previous one (I assume it’s the load put on my graphics by the physics). So far I haven’t seen any quirks, though one user on Phoenix 1050 reported seeing me as partially Ruthed – she sent me a photo – never seen a partial Ruthing before! another super-smooth download and installation – Many Thanks to all the Dev Team and Phoenix in general.

I have some glitches on the graphics, specially on avatar mouth and eyes, very annoying, cleaning caches didn’t work for me. Running on Mac OS X. version 1050 was running just fine, back to the previous one.

Everything is fine but I have one person I cannot see. Tried getting http textures, upgrading from from 1050 to 1102. clearing the cache, doing a clean install, nothing. This “person” is invisible. they show on the radar but they are “out of range” iven in chat range. What else is there to try?